Word: truman
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Most Administrations have been plagued by ethical breakdowns of varying seriousness. Harry Truman's military aide, General Harry Vaughan, accepted a freezer from a manufacturer and survived the uproar. Dwight Eisenhower fired his chief of staff, Sherman Adams, for giving Government favors to an industrialist and taking a vicuña coat and an Oriental rug from him. Jimmy Carter defended his Budget Director and crony, Bert Lance, until Lance quit under charges that he had permitted relatives to overdraw their accounts in a bank he had headed. And then, of course, there were Richard Nixon's Watergate...
Gary Hart claims to be the candidate of new ideas. Walter Mondale can't see it. In a strict sense, Mondale is right. At least, that's how Harry Truman would have seen it. Back in 1961 Truman, whose 100th birthday will be celebrated May 8 around a world still appreciative of his stewardship, told Author Merle Miller: "The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. The only thing that changes is the names we give things...
...presidential campaigns, congressional hearings ("Nothing that Washington has to offer comes closer to theater") and state visits. He is at Nikita Khrushchev's elbow when the Soviet leader praises the bleak industrial landscape of the New Jersey Turnpike as a symbol of American dynamism; with Bess and Harry Truman as the couple, in bathrobes, bid good night from the back of their campaign train to an impromptu crowd of fellow ordinary Americans. Rovere's political analyses-about the Truman Administration's crippling venality, John Foster Dulles' domination of the Eisenhower Administration, John Kennedy's lack...
...disavowed Shultz, only to have Reagan say what Shultz was merely implying - namely, that since the Korean War the press has not been on "our side, militarily." He should reread history: wary of potential opposition from a determined Republican minority to the sending of U.S. troops to South Korea, Truman never tried to get a resolution endorsing his "police action" through Congress. When Presidents act in emergencies without full legal approval of Congress, they risk confusion about whose side everyone...
...Congress barred funding of a mission to the Vatican as a result of antipapal sentiment. President L Truman tried to re-establish ties in 1951 but was forced to back down. Congress repealed the prohibition in November with little opposition...